School: Brittas (roll number 12217)

Location:
Brittas, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 398

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  1. The boys, and girls around this district play a great lot of merry games.
    For instance, tig which is played by some children by counting to a certain number, or by saying a rhyme, for example,
    "P.I.G. pig,
    You have the old Irish tig."
    or
    "Dickery, dickery dock,
    The mouse ran up the clock,
    The clock struck one,
    The mouse is gone,
    Dickery, dickery, dock."
    or
    "As I went up some chiny steps
    I met some Chiny people,
    And this is the way they spoke to me,
    Visa, visa, vongo, vongo, vongo,
    Visa, visa, vongo,
    And out goes you."
    There is another game called birds, and one person gives a name of a bird to everybody, and one person has, to guess them, and the person who is giving out the game says to the guesser the following lines
    "All the birds of the air,
    And the fishes of the sea,
    Will you point me out the name of some-
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní hAnlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Brittas, Co. Dublin